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maggot
English
Etymology
From Middle English magot, magotte, probably Anglo-Norman alteration of maddock (“worm", "maggot”), originally a diminutive form of a base represented by Old English maþa (Scots mathe), from Frankish *maþ?, from common Proto-Germanic *maþô, from the Proto-Indo-European root *mat, which was used in insect names, equivalent to made +? -ock. Near-cognates include Dutch made, German Made and Swedish mask.
The use of maggot to mean a fanciful or whimsical thing derives from the folk belief that a whimsical or crotchety person had maggots in his or her brain.
Pronunciation
- enPR: m?g'?t, IPA(key): /?mæ??t/
Noun
maggot (plural maggots)
- A soft, legless larva of a fly or other dipterous insect, that often eats decomposing organic matter. [from 15th c.]
- (derogatory) A worthless person. [from 17th c.]
- Drop and give me fifty, maggot.
- (now archaic, regional) A whimsy or fancy. [from 17th c.]
- 1620, John Fletcher, Women Pleased, III.iv.
- Are you not mad, my friend? What time o' th' moon is't? / Have not you maggots in your brain?
- 1778, Frances Burney, Journals & Letters, Penguin 2001, p. 100:
- ‘I am ashamed of him! how can he think of humouring you in such maggots!’
- 1620, John Fletcher, Women Pleased, III.iv.
- (slang) A fan of the American metal band Slipknot.
Synonyms
- (soft legless larva): grub
Derived terms
Related terms
- mawk
- mawkish
Translations
maggot From the web:
- what maggots
- what maggots turn into
- what maggots look like
- what maggots eat
- what maggots mean
- what maggots do
- what maggots mean spiritually
- what maggots eat dead flesh
biotherapy
English
Etymology
bio- +? therapy
Noun
biotherapy (plural biotherapies)
- (medicine) Any of several unrelated therapies that use natural biological processes, especially those that use parts of the immune system.
- (medicine) The use of living organisms (such as maggots or leeches) in the control of disease or the healing of wounds.
Derived terms
- biotherapist
Translations
biotherapy From the web:
- what is biotherapy for cancer
- what is biotherapy treatment
- what does biotherapy mean
- what does biotherapy include
- what does biotherapy
- what is magnetic biotherapy
- what are some biotherapy
- biotherapy for cancer treatment
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